We Can’t Breathe!

A Friends school’s quick response to 2020’s racial protests.

Mauricio Torres

Features

She Had a Dream

Alaskan Friend Mahala Dickerson leaves a legacy.

Charlotte Basham

Features

Reparations

The road from saving to giving.

Elizabeth Oppenheimer

Features

A Proposed Plan for Retrospective Justice

Acknowledging our past, committing to truth, and making amends.

Harold D. Weaver Jr.

Poetry

These Days

These days I mostly want to be quiet.Except when I don’t.What I’m saying is I want to choose.At the same…

Linda Chidsey

Poetry

Farm Market Encounter

I stumble,spill strawberries across asphalt. You kneel without a word,hands bearing sweetness into mine,sun radiant around your dark head. You…

Laura Grace Weldon

Poetry

The Small Notches

An entire week and I finally rubbedthe last of the price tag’s sticky residuefrom the coffee mug I bought off…

Steven Ray Smith

Forum

Forum, January 2021

Surveying the flat lands Joe McHugh’s recent article on senior spirituality (“East of Denver,” FJ Dec. 2020) was inspiring and…

Staff

Witness

Watering Our Quaker Roots

Arch Street Meeting awards a grant to St. James School, an independent Episcopal milld-school in Philadelphia.

Paul Laskow

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, January 2021

Have you seen the one with two young adult Friends talking about how they use humorous Internet memes to raise…

Staff

Uncategorized

Our Top Five Articles for 2020

What's captured readers' attention this past year?

FJ Editorial Staff

News

Guilford College plans to cut majors and faculty due to financial crisis

Last updated December 7, 2020 Guilford College announced on November 6 that due to financial shortfalls it plans to cut…

FJ News Editor

Among Friends

Hunkering Down, Growing Down

Reader, this has not been a typical year. As our days grow shorter and our nights colder here in the…

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Other Voices, Other Zooms

Adapting in-person presentation for Friends online.

Peterson Toscano

Features

Full Circles and Kindred Spirits

The creation of a solstice choral work with poetic roots in Friends Journal.

Shawn Kirchner

Features

765 Small Flags

A Friends community finds a creative way to respond to gun violence.

Allen’s Neck Peace and Social Concerns Committee

Liz Oppenheimer on Quakers Respond to ICE Deployment in Twin Cities

I appreciated the article about Friends’ responses to Operation Metro Surge. There were of course other…
George Busolo Lukalo on Making My Life a Testimony

So amazing being a Quaker. More to learn and live as a Quaker is my desire….
John Newkirk on The Journey Back to God

First I am sorry for your loss and I would just like to say addiction is…
Nate on The Journey Back to God

Robin, that is a strong story, and I’m so glad you’re still here in the land…